Photographed during the day on Tiritiri Matangi, an island sanctuary off Auckland.
Giant Weta are so big that they can't fit into holes like the smaller weta species can - instead they just find a really poor hiding place in a tree (in this case on a branch under the frond of a tree fern) and wait until dark. This is why they disappeared off the mainland soon after rats arrived in New Zealand.
This one is a female, as can be told by her ovipositor.
